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HMDT Music celebrates its 30th anniversary

The Hackney Music Development Trust project involves local residents in community-based music-making
HMDT's production of Hear Our Voice, based on the writings of children who lived through the Holocaust
HMDT's production of Hear Our Voice, based on the writings of children who lived through the Holocaust - © Clive Barda

Events marking HMDT Music's 30th anniversary open on 17 May with a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of VE Day. We’ll Meet Again is a compilation of HMDT commissions about the second world war, including ‘The Blitz’ scene from Jonathan Dove’s and Alasdair Middleton’s opera The Hackney Chronicles, excerpts from HMDT’s Home Front revue I’ll Be Seeing You (2005) by Matthew King and Alasdair Middleton, and music from Hear Our Voice by Jonathan Dove and Matthew King, set to a libretto Tertia Sefton-Green compiled from the writings of children of the Holocaust. It will be performed by HMDT’s I Can Sing! choir at the Bridge Academy at 2.30pm.

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